Building America's goal is to create jobs that provide family-supporting wages with pension and healthcare benefits for residents of each local community in which it invests.

This includes creating union construction jobs on every project financed. Our approach to local construction hiring is to get involved early in the process, working with the local building trades unions, local government agencies, and the contractor before the construction contract is finalized. To ensure long-term local hiring goals are met, Building America selects projects where the developer will meet our workforce requirements, in addition to state or local workforce requirements that may provide further opportunities for low-income residents.

Building America’s NMTC investments of $133.5 million in 17 projects have created/retained:

4,800 union construction jobs

2,800 permanent jobs.

Paseo Verde - Philadelphia, PA

For example, in 2012 Building America closed its investment of $5 million in the construction of the $48.2 million Paseo Verde project, in Philadelphia, PA. The project created 303 union construction jobs. Tenants include Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha with 145 permanent jobs providing community services including foster care case management, a food buying club, a job training/placement center, housing counseling, and a non-profit housing developer. Other tenants include a healthcare center with 17 positions, of which 30% are for community residents, and a pharmacy with 8 jobs, of which 3 are low-income community residents.